Try science instead of segula. In the NY area and most temperate zones, the salix purpura is common,(cultivated and prized for basketweaving) and it is overloaded with rooting hormone. Start some days before yomtov. Take fresh looking arovos, and re-cut the bottom of the stems by about a centimeter. If you can manage to do this under water even better. ( there are cutters of this type for flower stems, with a cutter rigged over a water container. The cut should be angled. Trim up some leaves and stand so the stem is in water with no leaves, and set in dark, so the water needs of the leaves is reduced. Sooner or later root nibs will appear. This is the ideal time to use them, and return them back to the wet dark conditions as soon as practical. If the rootlets are not to badly beaten up, you will have a seven day arava. Or, you can buy 14 aravos, keep them in the same condition, and use as needed. In a weeks time the roots will get larger, but they will stay fresh. Consider yourself lucky, the celo packed refrigerated floppy aravos in EY(salix alba) have no such recovery capacity.
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